Wild Salmon Center to host community event

On Oct. 30, 2025 at 5 p.m. at Fort George Brewery’s Lovell Showroom in Astoria, a community event will be held to discuss upcoming changes to state forest management. Efforts to restore healthy forests, clean water, wild salmon and steelhead runs and the habitats they depend on in the North Coast will be discussed as well. This event is sponsored by Wild Salmon Center, North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection, Seven Capes Bird Alliance and Stand Tall Oregon. Featured speakers from Wild Salmon Center include Oregon Senior Policy Manager Michael Lang, Oregon senior Wild Fish Manager Kirk Blaine and North Coast Habitat Restoration Manager Cyndi Curtis.

The title and theme of the event is “Forests & Ales: Protecting Forests, Fish, and Rivers on the North Coast.” Following the presentations, the three speakers will participate in a Q&A panel.

Doors open at 5 p.m. for social hour, presentations and panel Q&A from 6-8 p.m. Wild Salmon Center is hosting the first round of beverages (beer, wine, N.A.) for the first 50 attendees! Fort George Lovell Showroom is located at 1483 Duane St. in Astoria. For info, reach out to Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator Pam Birmingham at pamb.wsc@gmail.com.

Wild Salmon Center is a nonprofit organization that promotes the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim. The organization identifies science-based solutions to sustain wild salmonids and the human communities and livelihoods that depend on them. For more info, visit wildsalmoncenter.org.

North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection is a grassroots group that advocates for the protection of drinking water on the Oregon Coast. The non-profit aims to end logging and pesticide spray within and surrounding forested drinking watersheds in the state, regardless of land ownership. The group was started in 2012 by Nancy Webster, a Rockaway citizen concerned about the clearcutting of forest land and aerial pesticide spraying in the Jetty Creek Watershed, the source of her community’s drinking water. For more info, visit healthywatershed.org.

Stand Tall Oregon is a group of organizations and individuals working together to restore healthy mature forests, intact ecosystems, abundant wildlife, robust wild salmon runs, and clean water to Oregon’s state forests. The group supports restoring balanced ecosystem-based management for state forests by advocating for a strong habitat conservation plan and other laws and policies that support these goals.

Seven Capes Bird Alliance (SCBA), formerly Audubon Society of Lincoln City, educates and advocates for protections of birds, other wildlife, and their habitats in Lincoln and Tillamook counties. SCBA is a non-profit organization.